Volume : 7, Issue : 7, July - 2018

NICOTINE REPLACEMENT THERAPY- EFFECTIVE TOOL IN SMOKING CESSATION: A SHORT REVIEW

Dr. Rohan Sachdev, Dr. Kriti Garg, Dr. Garima Singh

Abstract :

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:&#10;justify;text-justify:inter-ideograph;line-height:150%;mso-layout-grid-align:&#10;none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;&#10;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Cigarette smoking, a leading cause of morbidity and mortality, is associated with cardiovascular and respiratory diseases, cancer and stroke. Smokers are often neglected and not offered effective assistance with quitting their habits. Among treatment available in society, pharmacotheraputiclly nicotine replacement therapy (NRT) is an important component of efficacious tobacco use interventions. NRT is available in many formulations, helps smokers during the withdrawal processby replacing a proportion of the nicotine formerly obtained from cigarettes. Here we focus a small review for the use of NRT in smoking cessation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>